Wolfgang Jacoby

This article deals with the geophysicist Wolfgang Jacoby. For other people see Wolfgang Jacobi .

Wolfgang Jacoby (born December 3, 1936 in Reval ) is a German geophysicist and professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where he heads the geophysics group.

In the mid-1960s he received his doctorate in geophysics with Karl Jung at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , who then employed him as a research assistant . After studying at the Gravity Division in Ottawa , Canada , where he dealt intensively with geological-geophysical earth models and seismology , he began a lengthy activity in the fields of geodynamics and then became professor for applied geophysics in Frankfurt.

Since the end of 1984 he has been professor of geophysics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , where he continues to deal with the driving forces of plate tectonics and mantle convection and - caused by the geodynamic phenomena of the surrounding region - with rift zones , gravimetry and seismics as well as volcanism the Eifel concerned. He is now a professor emeritus in the department.

Jacoby is also the chairman of the European Geosciences Union (EGS) and its meetings and was editor of the EGS's Journal of Geodynamics .